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...Theodore Ropp Sea War: The Story of the U. S. Merchant Marine in World War II . By Reisenberg Felix Jr . New York : Rinehart and Company, Inc. , 1956 . Pp. 320 . $5.00 . Copyright © 1957 by Duke University Press 1957 Book Reviews 413 Kentucke, published in 1784. The book...

...Charles M. Dobbs Copyright © 1977 by Duke University Press 1977 American Marines in North China, 1945-1946 Charles M. Dobbs The presence of American marines in North China in 1945 and 1946 undoubtedly altered the course of Chinese history, and certainly chilled American relations...

...Alan K. Manchester Christopher Columbus, Mariner . By Morison Samuel Eliot . Maps by Erwin Raisz. Boston and Toronto : Little, Brown and Company , 1942 , 1955 . Pp. x , 224 . $3.75 . Copyright © 1957 by Duke University Press 1957 146 The South Atlantic Quarterly Christopher...

...Theodore Ropp The Last Parallel: A Marine’s War Journal . By Russ Martin . New York : Rinehart and Company, Inc. , 1957 . Pp. 333 . $3.95 . Copyright © 1957 by Duke University Press 1957 416 The South Atlantic Quarterly The Diary of Elisabeth Koren, 1853-1855. Translated...

...Theodore Ropp The U. S. Marines and Amphibious War: Its Theory, and Practice in the Pacific . By Isely Jeter A. Crowl Philip A. . Princeton : Princeton University Press , 1951 . Pp. vii , 636 . $7.50 . Copyright © 1951 by Duke University Press 1951 602 The South Atlantic...

... by a massive network of US military installations. For decades, soldiers and Marines trained in the northern jungles for wars in places like Indochina, Iraq, and Afghanistan; the military airfields and harbors have supported American interests and operations across the Pacific and Indian Oceans. While...

.... [Clark G. Reynolds, U.S. Merchant Marine Academy] Mr. Schwab is a genius. I have never met his equal, said his close friend and long-time business associate, Andrew Carnegie. In his fine biography, Steel Titan: The Life of Charles M. Schwab (New York: Oxford University Press, 1975, $14.95), Robert...

... of the recognition of Catesby s role in natural history that the giant bullfrog, Rana catesbeiana, is named in his honor, for he was the large frog in the early American biological pond. DUKE UNIVERSITY MARINE LABORATORY F. JOHN VERNBERG Francis Parkman. By Howard Doughty. New York: The Macmillan Company, 1962. Pp...

...Michael Lujan Bevacqua In 2009, the US Department of Defense outlined their plans to dramatically increase their military presence in Guam, a Micronesian island that has been a colony of the United States since 1898. This move of several thousand Marines currently stationed in Okinawa represented...

... the assertion of jurisdiction. The Heiltsuk continue to challenge the federal Department of Fisheries and Oceans’ permitting commercial herring fisheries, and have dealt with a marine diesel spill using their own legal processes. The Tsleil-Waututh are opposing the construction of another fossil fuel pipeline...

...- performative domain supercharged with a plethora of affective male ener- gies. So much so that no less than God himself “has a hard-on for marines.” That remarkable revelation of divine desire comes by way of Gunnery Sergeant Hartman (Lee Ermey), the most memorable figure in Stanley...

... Hall: Critical Dialogues in Cultural Studies , edited by Morley David Chen Kuan-Hsing , 286 – 305 . London : Routledge . James C. L. R. [1953] 2001 . Mariners, Renegades, and Castaways: The Story of Herman Melville and the World We Live In . Hanover, NH : Dartmouth College...

.... The U. S. Marines and Amphibious War: Its Theory, and Practice in the Pacific. By Jeter A. Isely and Philip A. Crowl. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1951. Pp. vii, 636. $7.50. This excellent volume is distinctly a work for specialists, but everyone interested in our landing operations...

... of death, as he and Emmanuel Levinas define it, and with what Der- rida (in his hommage to his friend Louis Marin) calls “the point of view of death.” Derrida’s memorials to Levinas and Marin are representative of the varied tributes to his dead friends included in The Work of Mourning: post- humous...

... and in the air as we had been in 1941. Much of this story has been recently covered in Jeter A. Isley and Philip A. Crowl s The U. S. Marine and Amphibious War (noted in the Quarterly for October, 1951), but Dr. Morison s account is much better balanced. The Marine Corps account has properly concentrated...

... Amanpour narrated the goings-on rather economically: ‘‘It was a classic media event—lights flash- ing—people desperately trying to ask the marines some questions The Marines—a small group of Special Forces–style commandos called a Ma- rine Reconnaissance Unit, the vanguard of the landing—were not so...

... (markup of H.R. 2533, H. Con. Res. 135, H.J. Res 216, H. Con. Res. 137). May 19 and June 2, 9, 10, 11, and 23 . Washington, DC : United States Government Printing Office . United States Congress House Committee on Merchant Marine and Fisheries . 1987 . Kuwaiti Tankers, Hearings before...

... was then displayed for the first time. I at the same time ac­ quainted Mr. Hewes, a member of Congress, and my parti­ cular friend, with a project for seizing the island of St. Hel­ ena, etc., etc. Mr. Hewes was then a member of the Con­ gress from North Carolina and a member of the Committee on Marine Affairs. I...

... to become ground minded. . . . I have no quarrel with the conception of a strategic air force. But a war cannot be waged in a vacuum, and there must be room enough in any modern con­ ception of war for a tactical air group which intelligently supports ground forces. . . . Marine fliers . . . had been...

... characteristics of our naval history between the two World Wars: (1) our long de­ pendence on British marine engineering and research; (2) developments by American firms which had, originally, no connection with ships or marine engineering; and (3) the battle efficiency which resulted from the changes which took...